If he's plugging in his Touchpad to a computer and clicking USB Drive on his TP (or whatever the syntax is, I'm not at home) he shouldn't need novacomd installed. At that point the Touchpad becomes like a giant flash drive and windows should provide a default flash drive driver. Am I wrong about that? I'm going to plug my TP into my wife's laptop tonight and see if Windows 7 tries to install something other than a default driver.

If he's plugging in his Touchpad to a computer and clicking USB Drive on his TP (or whatever the syntax is, I'm not at home) he shouldn't need novacomd installed. At that point the Touchpad becomes like a giant flash drive and windows should provide a default flash drive driver. Am I wrong about that? I'm going to plug my TP into my wife's laptop tonight and see if Windows 7 tries to install something other than a default driver.

That's the problem... Without novacom, Windows has no drivers and won't download them. It defaults to seeing the TouchPad as a mass storage unit (like a thumb drive) and not a device with an independent OS.

That's the problem... Without novacom, Windows has no drivers and won't download them. It defaults to seeing the TouchPad as a mass storage unit (like a thumb drive) and not a device with an independent OS.

Tried it on my wife's windows 8 laptop, the touchpad told me it couldn't go into USB mode because too many cards were open? I'll install novacom and try again.